Bionic bird takes flight in South Africa

Two bionic innovations were, this week, displayed in South Africa for the first time. The Festo SmartBird, which replicated the wing motion of a Herring Gull in a robotic form, and the BionicOpter, a flying robot based on the dragonfly, took flight at the nineteenth World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in Cape Town.Go to Source